u/seaworks

I recently picked up funger on the steam sale and I've played through it a few times now.

Perhaps it would be against the spirit and urgency of the game, but I found myself, in encounters, observing how much food was being wasted, and all the lost opportunities to cook stuff, even if you have the cookbook.

To some degree, I'm speaking from experience. As an american wagecuck brokie back in the day, like our good health secretary, I've eaten my fair share of roadkill and animals I've killed. As a hiker and current day SCAdian, I have experience cooking on fires and cooking medieval recipes. They're pretty different to current day ones, but in many ways I prefer them.

I'm kind of interested in making a mod to expand upon the cooking and hunt-foraging mechanics, particularly offering opportunities to create more complex historical dishes, incentivizing the moss farming and so on, and also making it possible for you to be attacked while cooking (it's bonkers to imagine making pie crust and just everybody leaves you alone?)

Would there be interest in this from the fanbase more broadly, or is this just me? I haven't played Termina so I don't know how it's handled there, so this could all be redundant.

for a long time, I had my eye on a framework laptop. it'd be the first decent portable computer id have since college- now the crazy memory prices have pushed that out of practicality. once upon a time I used to prowl Newegg and find myriad used computers, parts and so on. Now all the prices even on used stuff seems and sounds as expensive, relatively, as it was in the 80s- for much better technology, yes, but much of it bloated and physically fragile.

I ask around and a lot of people don't even know how to dispose of electronics in a way that- allegedly- keeps the materials in the (computing) ecosystem. I mean, even Best Buy takes broken electronics! But I'm sick thinking of how much of it has ended up in the general waste stream because someone doesn't know how to fix it or what components are broken. Demands on systems keep rising, and parts are treated as disposable when in reality they are not. how many good parts were relegated to dumpsters? Or created with infeasible limitations in mind (like old Chromebooks?) SIGH.

All this to ask... what's the middle ground? Are there any good, reputable secondhand PC markets left? What efforts are being undertaken to increase the circularity of parts as prices spiral out of control? FFS- most of what I play is from the 00s anyway.

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I know, dirty word! Gatekeepers mean! I think we've all (especially us trans folks) had negative experiences with gatekeeping in the classical sense, a doctor or insurance specialist standing between us and care. I know I have.

But that's not really what it means to us anymore. Gatekeeping has evolved to mean something more like "making anyone feel excluded, at any time." It's become a very squishy concept- if Gatekeeping is just "excluding people or telling them they aren't welcome," Gatekeeping is sometimes necessary, protective, and helpful.

Gatekeepers removed NAMBLA marchers from parades in the 70s. Gatekeeping puts its foot down and says "you're not going to wear nazi shit in this leather bar." Gatekeeping says "While your cause may be important, polyamorous people, your struggles and ours do not always intersect." It tells TERF lesbians they can't violate the social contract in lesbian spaces by harming trans ones.

Under that definition, we all gatekeep. Yes, people dont like to feel excluded, but realistically every friend group is gatekept, even if we don't like the idea that we like to exclude others. Each case of so called gatekeeping should be examined independently, not automatically rejected. You'll kill your community that way.

Or perhaps this is not the definition of gatekeeping at all; perhaps it is "standing between someone and resources they say they need." Well, who determines that? Does the radical feminist at Mitchfest get to turn trans men and women away, because she believes cis women need spaces for cis women? (Camp trans would beg to differ.) Obviously this becomes very insidious, and it's almost *better* if the definition is the former.

At this point, I worry the term has been abstracted into meaninglessness, a lot like "valid," which has been the reflex description of any personal claim at any time, but that's a matter for another post.

So, what do you think? What is gatekeeping, really? Is it undeserving of the bad rap it gets, or can the master's tools never dismantle the master's house? Or, perhaps most stupidly, is it just only gatekeeping when I don't like it?

Hello everyone.

I'm writing for a character (kindred) who spent the end of his life and early unlife in Prussia at the tail end of the 19th century into the early 1900s before (being allowed to) flee to America, where he was born, in 1918 as German forces collapsed.

I'm happy to share more if desired, but I don't have a copy of Berlin By Night, and haven't been able to get one on Thriftbooks or otherwise.

My question is this- does it even cover what I need? And if it doesn't, what lore otherwise exists in WoD for turn-of-the-century Germany or Europe? I'm also open to headcanons or even how perhaps you've handled it.

Thanks!